Manteca is changing its game plan for its next fire station in a bid to better serve growth as well as make a bid for federal stimulus funds.
The City Council on Tuesday is being asked to consider stopping design work on the proposed fire station at Atherton Road and Woodward Avenue as well as the retrofit design work for converting the former Carpenter’s Hall on Union Road into a fire station as well.
The plan is to adopt the work done so far on the Atherton Drive location to fit a new site on Lathrop Road that is part of the Del Web at Woodbridge project.
The modified plans would go along with a bid for federal stimulus money to build a fourth station.
The city would still use the Atherton Drive plans when Manteca is in a position to build a fifth fire station to serve southeast Manteca. The idea is to simply repeat the same design plan for future fire stations to reduce costs.
Manteca has already started to take steps to declare the Union Road Carpenters Hall that was purchased with fire growth fees as surplus property. Ultimately, it will be put up for sale with proceeds going back to the for growth fee account.
The Lathrop Road fire station would be near Union Road.
Originally the plan was to remodel the Carpenters Hall on the northeast corner of Union Road and Louise Avenue as the fourth fire station location to bring several thousand homes within a targeted five-minute response time. The city was then going to close the existing Louise Avenue station west of Main Street and not build the Villa Ticino fire station planned directly across from the Manteca Unified School Distinct office on Louise Avenue east of Airport Way.
The new strategy will keep the existing Louise Avenue station in place and still not build the Villa Ticino station.
By building the fourth station along Lathrop Road, it will be going where the city’s highest rate of growth is now occurring.
Steady building is taking place both at Del Webb at Woodbridge and the adjacent Union Ranch. Ultimately, 1,922 homes are being built on 500 acres.
Before work started on the two neighborhoods north of Lathrop, an estimated 2,000 homes in northwest Manteca were outside the five-minute response time. Once completed, there would be 4,000 homes – or almost one out of every six residnetial units in Manteca – outside the targeted response range.
The change in strategy assures Manteca will be putting resources where they are needed.
When built, the Lathrop Road station will bring thousands of homes in northwest Manteca under the targeted five-minute response time umbrella for emergency fire and medical services plus provide coverage for the Center Point business park going in east of the Union Pacific intermodal yard.
The five-minute response time is a mantra for those who make a living putting out fires and responding to heart attacks.
Having firefighters and equipment on the scene of a fire or medical emergency within five minutes is essential for two reasons:
•The chance of surviving a heart attack or major trauma starts dropping off rapidly after five minutes.
•”Flash over” when fires literally erupt occur within five minutes of the first visible flame.
It sounds like a lot of time, but it really isn’t. The first two and a half minutes are consumed by a call being placed, equipment dispatching and the engine actually rolling out of a fire station.
That leaves 180 seconds for firefighters to reach a structure fire or a major medical emergency.
The council meets Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center, 1001 W. Center St.
The City Council on Tuesday is being asked to consider stopping design work on the proposed fire station at Atherton Road and Woodward Avenue as well as the retrofit design work for converting the former Carpenter’s Hall on Union Road into a fire station as well.
The plan is to adopt the work done so far on the Atherton Drive location to fit a new site on Lathrop Road that is part of the Del Web at Woodbridge project.
The modified plans would go along with a bid for federal stimulus money to build a fourth station.
The city would still use the Atherton Drive plans when Manteca is in a position to build a fifth fire station to serve southeast Manteca. The idea is to simply repeat the same design plan for future fire stations to reduce costs.
Manteca has already started to take steps to declare the Union Road Carpenters Hall that was purchased with fire growth fees as surplus property. Ultimately, it will be put up for sale with proceeds going back to the for growth fee account.
The Lathrop Road fire station would be near Union Road.
Originally the plan was to remodel the Carpenters Hall on the northeast corner of Union Road and Louise Avenue as the fourth fire station location to bring several thousand homes within a targeted five-minute response time. The city was then going to close the existing Louise Avenue station west of Main Street and not build the Villa Ticino fire station planned directly across from the Manteca Unified School Distinct office on Louise Avenue east of Airport Way.
The new strategy will keep the existing Louise Avenue station in place and still not build the Villa Ticino station.
By building the fourth station along Lathrop Road, it will be going where the city’s highest rate of growth is now occurring.
Steady building is taking place both at Del Webb at Woodbridge and the adjacent Union Ranch. Ultimately, 1,922 homes are being built on 500 acres.
Before work started on the two neighborhoods north of Lathrop, an estimated 2,000 homes in northwest Manteca were outside the five-minute response time. Once completed, there would be 4,000 homes – or almost one out of every six residnetial units in Manteca – outside the targeted response range.
The change in strategy assures Manteca will be putting resources where they are needed.
When built, the Lathrop Road station will bring thousands of homes in northwest Manteca under the targeted five-minute response time umbrella for emergency fire and medical services plus provide coverage for the Center Point business park going in east of the Union Pacific intermodal yard.
The five-minute response time is a mantra for those who make a living putting out fires and responding to heart attacks.
Having firefighters and equipment on the scene of a fire or medical emergency within five minutes is essential for two reasons:
•The chance of surviving a heart attack or major trauma starts dropping off rapidly after five minutes.
•”Flash over” when fires literally erupt occur within five minutes of the first visible flame.
It sounds like a lot of time, but it really isn’t. The first two and a half minutes are consumed by a call being placed, equipment dispatching and the engine actually rolling out of a fire station.
That leaves 180 seconds for firefighters to reach a structure fire or a major medical emergency.
The council meets Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center, 1001 W. Center St.
